Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-02-20
THE RAILROADS.
A Fort Wor;h Citizen Patents a Re-
Clining Chair and Sleeping Car,
which will be Built Here.
How Fort worth Roads will Materialize
from New Until June 1-Waco's
New Road-Home Notes.
Home Notes.

The Fort Worth and Rio Grande made
a very good start yesterday with its
tracklaYlng.
Mr.. j .Fitzsimmons, the new Missouri
Pacific train dispatcher, has entered upon
his duties mere.
PJ. Crosby, travelling passenger agent
of the Texas and Pacific, with headqusrt-
ers at Ell paso, wss in Fort Worth last
night.
High officials of the Gulf, Colorado and
Santa Fe say they will be running trains
from Galveston and Fort Worth to Kan
ses City on or before the first day OF
June.
Several of the northern papers say the
Fort Worth and Denver will have the
connection made ut Pueblo with the Fort
Worth line inside of eighteen months,
which will certainly be rapid work.
II G. Fleming, superintendent OF the
Missouri Pacific lines in Texas, arrived
in Fort Worth yesterday in his special
car, accompanied by several other
officials. The party Was on tour OF in
spectiou.
1t is learned from g good source that
Msior Hinckley, the chief engineer in
Texas for the st. Louis, Arkansas and
Texas, is slready at work on the prelim-
inaries for running the line from Com
merce to Fort Worth.
The committee of directors Of the Fort
Worth Western who are coming from
New York to Fort Worth will probably
be here this week or next, but local
officials will be notified by wire on the
departure FROM New York city.
Bv March Fort Worth will have rail
road communication with Quanah over
the Fort Worth and Denver. By.April l
Fort Worth will have railroad communi-
cation with Granbury over the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande. By May l Fort Worth
will he able to reach $50 miles into the In
dian Territory over the Gulf, Colorado
and Santa Fe, and by June can reach
Kansas CITY over the Atchison Gulf line.
By that time work will be well under way
on the st. Louis, Arkansas and Texas,
the Fort Worth Western, the Southern
Kansas and Texas, and the Frisco line to
Fort Worth. By June the city OF Fort
Worth will be hummer.
A diagram of one of the Goelet palace
palace cars shows six sections or state
rooms similar to Pullman car, grand
drawing room with sixteen elegant chairs,
ladies and gentlemen IS toilet rooms, gen
tlemen's smoking room, buffet for meals,
table tor reading, writing, lunching, etc,
fire proof heater and ventilators
and every convenience possible for the
comfort and safety of passengers. These
cars need only to be seen to be in immedi-
ate demand on every irst-clsss railway.
Some of our prominent railroad officials
and other citizens are taking q very active
interest in forming q company to build
and operate these cars, and we will soon
have another gun TO boom Fort Worth.
In short time the first car, to be named
''Fort WORTH" will probably be in use,
and as soon as possible the cars will be
built in this city.
One OF our citizens, Mr.. E. B. Goelet,
has been granted letters patent on re-
Ginning chair and also on a combined chair
and sleeping car. The reclining chair is
designed chiefly as car seat, but the
patent also covers its use as psrlor or
office chair and bed. As car seat 1t is
pronounced by railroad officials who have
examined it, simply perfection; it is both